banned_man

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by banned_man 18y ago
For the loser men who chase bubbly/slutty girls, the most common sex act is being rejected. I wouldn't imagine that this feels good.
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Ask HN: What do you think of the Kindle?
4 points by banned_man 18y ago|2 comments
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by banned_man 18y ago
I disagree. 1. A number of people in the US find sex to be degrading and harmful, at least on a subconscious level, while most reasonable people would only apply those epithets to a small subset of sexual activity. 2. People who harbor unhe
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by banned_man 18y ago
I think it's time for VCs to become (lacking a better word) nicer: throw multiple liquidation preferences on history's scrap heap, start paying startup's legal fees instead of making the startup pay theirs, and allow founders to have more c
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by banned_man 18y ago
I think there are a lot of men who have the same complex. There are a lot of men who are attracted to vapid and bitchy women-- the popular bubbly/slutty girl. They have a similar mindset: sex is an embarrassing, dissatisfying, and stupid ac
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by banned_man 18y ago
This is completely wrong, because women who like alpha males have those preferences because they've been taught that sex is degrading, humiliating, and painful, and are therefore attracted to men who are likely to humiliate and damage them.
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by banned_man 18y ago
There's a difference between being physically strong, having a backbone as you put it, and being a badboy. There are extremely muscular men who are very nice people, and there's also a huge middle ground (into which most men fall) between b
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by banned_man 18y ago
You're blaming evolution for womens' generally execrable tastes in men, but the source of the problem is likely cultural and psychological. A large proportion of American women have been raised with an unspoken and often subliminal belief t
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by banned_man 18y ago
I'm curious why you consider C to be safe but Haskell not. Seeing as C has no bounds checking on arrays, runtime type-checking, or garbage collection, I'm tempted to argue to the contrary.
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by banned_man 18y ago
I think matrix multiplication is O(N^2.71), and there are a few problems in abstract algebra that have doubly exponential algorithms.
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by banned_man 18y ago
Rationals are countable but dense. You can biject Z * Z <-> N trivially (start from origin, spiral out) and Q can be constructed as a subset of Z * Z. Reals are uncountable.
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by banned_man 18y ago
I live in New York, so I'm quite familiar with TWC. The executives at Time Warner seem to think they're running a vacuum company and that, therefore, their objective is to suck as much as possible. Someone needs to be a good citizen and sen
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by banned_man 18y ago
I think Xoxohth/Autoadmit (a law school admissions forum that is actually about 20 trolls using 800 user names to "flame" each other) is more artsy than /b/, though it doesn't have quite as much force. XO has resulted in lawsuits, and it ha
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by banned_man 18y ago
Although it's not quite the same thing, this reminds me my semester in Budapest (undergrad math program). I actually saved a few thousand dollars by doing so. American tuition is just really expensive.
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by banned_man 18y ago
On the flip side of that coin is the point that a smaller percentage of something successful is much better than a large percentage of zero. In theory, investor dilution shouldn't matter. If you have 50% of a $10 million company and $5 mill
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by banned_man 18y ago
At what stage? For a pre-money or single-digit employee, 0.35% is extremely small. For a company that has 50 developers and is about to IPO, it's a lot.
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by banned_man 18y ago
You are still conscious during sleep, but you usually aren't forming memories. The word "unconscious" (meaning nonresponsive) and "consciousness" (as a metaphor for "mind" in the Buddhist sense, subjective experience, or "soul") shouldn't b
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by banned_man 18y ago
My anticipation of the counterargument (which is not a bad one): As soon as you whisper something to the clone, the physical state of the clone is different from his. The counter-counter-argument is that if consciousness is a product of one
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by banned_man 18y ago
It would be extremely difficult to prove, since an exact physical copy of anything is impossible to make. I think it's very likely, though. I don't exhibit a constant physical state; it's always changing. This establishes a range (albeit, a
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by banned_man 18y ago
The assumption of materialism is as superstitious and silly as most religious assertions. It's scientism, not science. Science treats physical matter as first-class citizens; mind is not one. A large subset of Buddhism (especially Tibetan)
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by banned_man 18y ago
Science contains the reduction that two physically identical objects are equivalent: a kilogram of pure iron is the same as any other kilogram of iron (if such a thing existed). For the purposes of physics and biology, it's a valid reductio
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by banned_man 18y ago
The problem with Facebook is that they make very bad decisions at an executive level. Facebook is clearly not worth $0, but I don't think I'd invest in it at any valuation, only because I wouldn't trust Zuckerberg to manage my capital.
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by banned_man 18y ago
Shitty recruiters try to underplace clients because it's faster. If you can sell 3 times as many widgets at 75% the price...
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by banned_man 18y ago
Only listened, as I'm working. Seems to be missing a few things: over 9000, heroic women, "I'm a pwncat now", casual sex, metaflame, "series of tubes", the "subtle X troll" construction, et al.
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by banned_man 18y ago
it could be that there was something on your resumes or in your histories that, while you may consider it minute, was of some importance to this company. An example would be an investment banking internship in college. Banking internships
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by banned_man 18y ago
How badly do you want the job? If you don't want it that badly, just turn the offer down, because the company has already screwed up once and you're not even working for them yet. If you want or need the job, try to push your offer up 30% b
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by banned_man 18y ago
I absolutely hate smiling for photos. It feels fake. I don't really like having my picture taken, to be completely honest, even though I'm not bad looking. I really hope this study is as meaningless as I suspect it to be.
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Inflation, thus Real GDP Growth, Much Worse than Reported(youtube.com)
1 points by banned_man 18y ago|1 comments
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by banned_man 18y ago
What I'm going to learn from it. How I feel about the people. Ability to use functional languages. Pay matters only as a signal.
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by banned_man 18y ago
I don't like this, but then again, the language sorely needs one, and doesn't have one right now.

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